Central Council has approved the Football Review Committee's new rules to be voted upon at Special Congress next month.

Ard Chomhairle voted unanimously to forward the proposed Gaelic football rule changes recommended by the Football Review Committee to a Special Congress at Croke Park on November 30 – with a number of agreed amendments.

• The value of a goal to be three points

• The value of a point scored from a ‘45’ metre kick to be worth one point

• The indication of a two-point score for a point scored from play or a free kicked, on or outside, a 40 metre arc to be the waving of an orange flag by umpires on the signal from the referee of raising two hands in the air.

• To deliberately hold up an opposing player to be a black card offence and amended to read: To prevent or restrict, or to attempt to prevent or restrict, an opponent from moving or from playing the ball, by holding up an opponent

• The penalty for a goalkeeper receiving a pass outside of the agreed rules will be from the position the goalkeeper received the pass: A
free kick from the position the goalkeeper receives the pass, or if the goalkeeper is inside the 13m line (whether the player making the pass is inside the small rectangle or not) when in receipt of the pass, the free will be from the 13m line opposite where the foul occurred.

A proposal to rescind the motion to postpone the January pre-season competitions for 2025 was defeated.

It was agreed to rename the Allianz Football League Division 1 trophy as Corn Mhíchíl Uí Mhuircheartaigh in honour of the late RTÉ Gaelic games broadcaster.

Additional panel members appointed by the secretary of the DRA and ratified: Niamh Ní Leathlobhair BL, Frank Crean SC, and Vincent Nolan BL.

The Development CCC Masterplan was adopted for 2025.

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